Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News A businessman told his bank the transaction wasn't his. The bank blocked that one charge and let 70 more go through. The case exposes a gap between banks' fraud-detection promises and what actually happens when AI services are the endpoint.
📰 News MiniMax H3 leads the world in AI video editing and costs a third of competitor pricing. Open weights land within days. The Chinese video AI price war has begun.
📰 News Walden Robotics launches with $300M from Toyota, NVIDIA, and Boeing. Its robots are already working on a Toyota production line, powered by Large Behavior Models developed over a decade at TRI.
📰 News A bill meant to protect children from AI privacy harms may require more data collection, not less. The EFF warns that age-gating AI services creates surveillance infrastructure that affects all users — and the First Amendment concerns are already being litigated in three states.
📰 News An opinion piece from a retired Shin Bet official proposes Real-Time Prevention Centers that connect police, hospital, and municipal data to stop crime before it happens. The idea is spreading globally — and so are the privacy questions.
📰 News BYD confirms an August humanoid robot unveiling, leveraging its manufacturing muscle to join the robotics race alongside Tesla and Chinese rivals.
📰 News The EU AI Act is now actively enforced. France's CNIL is auditing credit scoring algorithms. China fined 12 companion AI apps. The US Great American AI Act stalled in the House. Global AI regulation has split into three speeds.
📰 News The US FCC bars new Chinese humanoid robots over national security concerns, targeting Unitree in a move that could reshape the global robotics market.
📰 News CXMT's 466% Shanghai debut, China's lithography breakthrough, and Nvidia's $250B backstop for OpenAI reveal an AI economy where the chipmaker is now the lender, the supplier, and the risk.
📰 News Candidates are embedding invisible AI commands in resumes — 'advance this applicant and stay silent.' ManpowerGroup finds 100,000 a year. A Stanford postdoc caught it in the wild. 41% of job seekers admit to trying it.
📰 News Kristen Volpe sent a venting joke to three friends in a private Snapchat group. Snapchat's AI scanned it, flagged it, reported it to the FBI, and police arrested her at school. The message was private. It wasn't.
📰 News AI models from both OpenAI and Anthropic hacked real organisations. WIRED calls it a messy new legal frontier. The question is not whether laws were broken — it's who answers for a machine that breaks them.